Great Hampden, Buckinghamshire Weather
About Great Hampden, Buckinghamshire
Ancient beech trees cast long, skeletal shadows across the chalky soil that defines the landscape of Great Hampden. It lies 3.0 miles east-south-east of Princes Risborough (from Princes Risborough: bearing 119°T, OS grid SP 849 012), and is situated north-north-west of Bryant's Bottom village. The wind carries a crisp, thin clarity across the plateau, rustling through the dense canopy of Monkton Wood where the air remains cool even in the heat of midsummer. Great Hampden preserves the legacy of the Hampden family, whose ancestral home sits nearby, surrounded by earthworks that whisper of older, more turbulent eras. A short distance to the north, the ancient ramparts of the motte castle known as Dane's Camp rise from the ground as if the earth itself had decided to harden into a jagged, defensive spine. Sunlight glints off the flint-knapped walls of the local architecture, reflecting a pale, bruised violet hue when the clouds gather above the Chiltern Hills. The silence here is rarely broken, save for the rhythmic caw of rooks circling the high branches or the sudden snap of a twig underfoot. Walking the lanes, one observes how the geography demands a slower pace, forcing the traveller to notice the way the light catches the limestone grit upon the path.
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About This Great Hampden, Buckinghamshire Weather Page
This page provides live weather conditions and forecasts for Great Hampden, Buckinghamshire, England, including current conditions, a 24-hour hourly forecast, 7-day outlook, real-time aviation weather (METAR and TAF reports from the nearest reporting airport), precipitation radar and Meteosat satellite imagery. Public safety alerts are sourced from the Met Office National Severe Weather Warning Service (NSWWS), covering wind, rain, snow, ice, fog, thunderstorm and extreme heat warnings. Live river level data is sourced from the Environment Agency Flood Monitoring API. All data updates automatically on every page visit.
Location data for Great Hampden includes coordinates 51.703183, -0.771942, in the county of Buckinghamshire, England. Times are shown in local UK time (GMT in winter, BST in summer). A street and satellite map of Great Hampden is available on the Great Hampden map page, and forecasts for neighbouring towns are listed on the Buckinghamshire weather hub.
Weather data is sourced from the Met Office and the open-source Open-Meteo API, whose ensemble includes the Met Office UKMO model. Severe weather warnings come from the Met Office National Severe Weather Warning Service (NSWWS). River level and tidal data are sourced from the Environment Agency Flood Monitoring and National Tide Gauge Network APIs. Aviation data is sourced from aviationweather.gov, with a modelled estimate shown where no reporting station is in range. Radar is provided by RainViewer and satellite imagery by EUMETSAT. All data updates automatically on every page visit.